What was the early era of the Internet like?

Blue Hyperlinks and crust jpegs everywhere with a healthy dose of CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON

There were no huge oligarchies milking their users for their data so that they could input it into their precious neural network machine algorithms.

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16/f/cali

>Why did it seem so innocent?
Well it certainly wasn't because it was more innocent. Back then you could easily find child porn openly posted. This was before Google/Yahoo started heavily cataloging the net though.

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Tor is basically windows 95

it was NOT innocent

todays internet makes pre-2004 internet look like its bubblewrapped at every fucking corner

yea there were no memes tho. the i kick ur dog one and got rice bitch were ok

bonzai buddy wut

It was not. Anyone who spent time in the old AOLs chat rooms would know

wanna cyber?

a/s/l?

I remember my parents forbidding me from going on forums and repeatedly told me never to give any of my IRL information to anyone.

::enters xXxDark TavernxXx with a violent slam of the front door. his dark black trenchcoat wafting forward before settling at his legs from the force of the wind rushing in. he peers around like a hawk before starting towards the bar::

>innocent
>posts CD known for it's virus

It really is.

Back then when cable internet first came out I was able to run a server in my garage.

THIS was the first barrage of memes I can recall from those days.
youtube.com/watch?v=jQE66WA2s-A

It was fucking amazing. It really was.
t. 40yo boomfag

Fuckin kek. I read stuff no child should read in those places

classic

right? it was a very fucking weird way to grow up.

It was pretty much just white people shopping on ebay. Also back then white nationalist sites got more traffic than MSM outlets.

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Viruses were rampant back then.

it was cool to read something on a website knowing it was being hosted from some dude's computer somewhere, everything was more direct i guess and now everything is easier to find but only because there's many fewer, much bigger websites where everything is centralized
it was more exciting but at the cost of being less convenient

Yeah. My dad left his password on all the time, so I went in an edited my own account so I could have no restrictions. Boomers man. No idea

free internet

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It was innocent because you didn't have fucking whores in it posting themselves naked for likes all day

What are you talking about user? Back then you can literally get CP from almost any website, especially this one.

Pretty much. Boomers and newfags have no clue cheese pizza was baked on /b/ frequently.

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html and tables ONLY.

This.

First email I ever received was telling me how to get SEXY 12 YEAR OLD JAPANESE GIRLS. I deleted it and went back to playing Quake 1 on mplayer.

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N ur base

>with a DOS shell?

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>albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pika

Not sure if this counts as "early" internet. But I used to get so much fucking porn from this.

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Boomers where the one that where actually making the CP though. I still remember that guy making his son suck his cock on an old thread. Shit was cash.

It was a much simpler time, the wild west, we were all young naive and our imaginations ran wild. We grew up running around outside on a playground and were spoiled by the rapid progression of technology. Now we're trapped in a dystopia where we can't help but take everything for granted.

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Gimme a go, no go for beta.

The internet, in those days, was like a series of dark and twisty passages where you were likely to be eaten.

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486 DX4-100 Cyrix CPU. Win95B. DOS manual at hand to enter command line interface to make peripherals function. CrashGuard to hopefully keep BSD Blue Screen of Death away.

Computer Shopper magazine was as big as a big-city phone book. Many hours of drooling at equipment.

Plug-n-play was a dream that finally starting semi-working with Win98SE.

And over the years I have been banned by hundreds of leftist elite-owned and operated mainstream media site commenting sections.

The need for Revolutionary War Two remains.

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Why are you faggots obsessed with boomers?

youtu.be/ebQy8QDWjkE

boy please

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Soothing sounds of your blistering 28.8 modem boring a hole deep into cyberspace as you deftly launch the Patrician's browser of choice. Got me in the feels I have to admit.

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>going on DBZ websites reading episode synopsis in the school library
>fucking with moonies on their message boards
>reading PA when is was funny
>IGN was based
>you could litterally search and DL any song you wanted
By gawd I want to go back....

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Pic-related was /b/ before /b/ was an itch in his daddy's pants.

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>dbz sites

Wew lad, 5th grade life.

I had a geocities site for dbz

>Download Kazaa
>Download Kazaa Gold from Kazaa

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Just imagine living in a world where Korn was culturally relevant. That was the internet back then.

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there were more websites other than facebook, google and youtube

times were a lot simpler

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>tfw late 90s
>in aol chatroom
>people IMing me a/s/l
>no idea wtf it means
>think theyre calling me an asshole

>you could litterally search and DL any song you wanted
I'm pretty sure you still can

>mplayer
Man, I showed some old lady with a hot voice my dick on mplayer. She sent me a pic and she was a giant fat old lady, never did that again.

I lusted over this fucking beast mode compy. Never got own, had to settle for running BeOS on Mac and PC hardware. This was the OS and platform of the future and we ignored it to our peril.

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Who remembers stick death? Game was amazing, link related.

youtu.be/JK-XJe_8TRg

>ouija board, would you work for me?
>I have got to say hello to an old friend...
youtube.com/watch?v=T8V82TXOzm0

I started surfing the web in about 1982 when there were just a few of us out there. People roll things more seriously back in my day.

Mr. T ste my balls.

I remember doing this too, what was the reason for it though? I don't even remember what Gold offered.
>mfw watching milfhunter

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>geocities
I haven't heard that name in YEARS.

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Xiao_xiao3.swf

One my comment and then I retire to my cozy boomer quarters: The proliferation of cookie cutter template sites (ala' bootstrap) and Wordpress has ruined the fucking internet. Everything is generic now. Sure we had fucked up Myspace sites and Geocities atrocities, but we were making it up as we went along and people would, due to the novelty of the whole experience, give a unique design a chance. After all, you just waited 1m30s for it load, so why not? Just a sea of sameness now.

>squeeeeeak
>gachunk

No ads I think and sick looking interface, I also presume a faster search and more search materials.

social media was non existent. it was a glorious time.

now you can literally search and DL any song, movie, TV series, book, or video game. the future is pretty good.

Built my own wcw wrestling page on geocities. It taught me to learn web development which eventuallyled me to college and a good career.

I owe everything to it.

iktfb

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But whatever version you were using the first handful of results were always the same fucking videos with a million tags.
>sexy hot ladyboy qwerty
>military twink gets his gun shoved up his ass
And of course the ever prevalent Bill Clinton ad when you tried to download music.

It was a request for you to tell them age/sex/location.

And... People got so many AOL free CD's to sign up, they used them as Christmas ornaments on the pine tree in front of their house. They would promise 700 free hours a month. There are only 744 hours in a month with 31 days.

This nigga knows whats up

youtube just banned alex jones though you retard dumbfuck
the future is full of censorship

This, it wasn't sanitized like web 2.0

Imagine what normies generally think of Jow Forums and apply it to the whole internet. It was a cool exclusive club like a tree house. No thots, no niggers, no MSM

I remember Yahoo’s chat rooms, was tons of straight up nasty room titles like “daddy/daughters” and “taboo family”. Mods didn’t give two shits back then.

>Joecartoon

My whole family gathered around to watch when my brother found these.

Also there were no thots, niggers, chinks or arabs online. Only white and Japanese men.

A true gentleman's club indeed.

>i-am-bored.com/

This website is nothing special today.

Naw bro we had like news groups and messages boards but, it was normie free.

i know i was asking op

>Only white and Japanese men.
the same ones that gave birth to Jow Forums and bestgore where you can see a gay degenerate stretching his bleeding anus to the camera?

i think my favorite memory of the 90s internet was not realizing you could copy/paste and manually typing unclickable URLs into the address bar that were like 5000 characters long

that exact same thing happened to me holy fuck

Great tune

Only Boomers will remember posting midi files on your Angelfire or Geocities page.

angelfire.com/mac/midistuff/

I don't even remember any ads.
>R@ySilver
>R@yBronze
>Dad fucks daughter and cousin 3:12sec (Song was catchy, but I could never find it)

That shit was cash.

Maxpages

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Fuckin early newgrounds, downloading edgy music, txt hacking guides for days, ascii pr0n, frog in a blender, stick death, faces of death, salad fingers, AOL chat profiles you spent hours perfecting, no fucking social media, no women (just traps), no old fucks, the awesome home environment on win95 was so cool, Encarta95 history maze, mouse maze screen saver you could control, Kazaa pr0n til the computer locked up, knowing Apple was shit since forever, doom and quake eventually CS, mIRC, bonzi buddy and wild tangent spam, never seeing the bottom 20% of an image so you never got a foot fetish, nude cleb shops, Myst even though you didn't understand it, fucking floppy disk niggas do you know how much they sucked? Whitehouse.com. DOS games like Jazz Jackrabbit. No niggers. Everyone was a giant dick.
Fuck it was so amazing. Fucking Jews and women ruined it

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